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From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client?
Date: Tue,  1 Feb 2011 16:56:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F4C59B6D-9EFC-4414-BFDA-7D6218B4ED7E@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c5841d56430d1482b42e7f2ff366dc9@chula.quanstro.net>


On 28 Jan 2011, at 1:36 pm, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
> if you want to be a cynic, a non-pluggable architecture is super
> for hardware companies.  they can segment the heck out of
> the market and get to the bad old says of charging big bucks
> for little extra features.  since there's no way to add them
> yourselves.

there goes my worldview. ;) i had been thinking integrated solutions
were the way to go because they can be so much simpler but i had
forgotten about this possibility. thanks for the reminder.

come to think of it, it's not just a matter of the hardware companies
being able to charge big bucks for extra features. it can also take a
lot of work to add a little extra to a non-pluggable design.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-01 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-27 17:35 Lawrence E. Bakst
2011-01-27 17:38 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-27 18:00   ` Lawrence E. Bakst
2011-01-27 18:16     ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-28  2:45       ` hiro
2011-01-28  2:47         ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-28  3:04         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-01-28  4:57       ` Lawrence E. Bakst
     [not found]       ` <p06240816c967e571b63d@192.168.1.155>
2011-01-28 21:31         ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-01-28 21:56           ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-28 23:42             ` hiro
2011-01-29 10:40             ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-01-29 10:51           ` Lawrence E. Bakst
     [not found]           ` <p0624080bc969982a9965@192.168.1.155>
2011-01-29 11:09             ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-01-29 13:17               ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-29 23:56               ` Noah Evans
2011-01-28 10:06     ` Richard Miller
2011-01-28 12:50       ` hiro
2011-01-28 13:36         ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-01 16:56           ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2011-02-01 22:27             ` hiro
2011-02-01 22:52               ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-27 18:01   ` Lawrence E. Bakst

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